Questions tagged [poison]
For questions about poisons in RPGs and how they work within a particular ruleset.
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My players think they found a loophole that gives them infinite poison and XP. How can I add the proper challenges to slow them down?
(I'm the game master.) The party (lvl. 4) reached a Kobold village. It has several dozen Kobolds, many of them pretty powerful. The players aren't supposed to kill everyone in it, but to solve the ...
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Can you add poison to breath weapon?
My goal is to find a way to add poison to a breath weapon to make it eligible for Venomfire.
4 possibilites I have yet to find a way to achieve this:
Find a way to add a dose of poison to a spell-...
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Can an Injection Reservoir apply to Athletics Maneuvers?
The Injection Reservoir Adjustment allows you to inject a poison into the target on a successful attack.
...Immediately after a successful attack with the adjusted weapon, you can inject the target ...
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Is there some source relating real poisons with ad&d (1e/2e) poison chart?
2e Dmg text for 'Table 51: Poison Strength' is clear:
Poisons are not listed by name here, since this is neither a
scientific text nor a primer on the deadly nature of many plants and
animals.
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Poison resistance [duplicate]
I was in a fight against a young green dragon and I play a War-forged barbarian and had to roll a constitution saving throw to get out of the way and take half damage and the War-forged has poison ...
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Fun way to disincentivize player from ingesting more unknown liquids [closed]
While we rotate who is the DM, we have a player who constantly drinks and eats random garbage. He is playing the goblin race, and while having very good ingestion he is not immune to poisons. At our ...
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How does the poisoned condition affect the challenge rating?
I am planning an encounter against different Ogres (Half-Ogre, Ogre, Ogre Battering Ram...). During the fight, the Ogres are drunk and suffer the poisoned condition (disadvantage on attack rolls and ...
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Does proficiency with a Poisoner's Kit protect you from exposure while Harvesting Poison?
The Dungeon Master's Guide (p. 258) describes a risk if you badly fail to harvest poison from a creature:
A character can … attempt to harvest poison from a poisonous creature … The creature must be ...
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Is there a rule for poison gathering?
I have heard some people are gathering poison from their Imps (fetched by Improved Familiar feat) and give it to the rogue in their team. But I can't find the related rule anywhere (there's a [Craft (...
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PF2: Can alchemist poison his bombs?
So poisons can be applied to weapons. This is typically done with poisons that have the Injury trait. Which requires the weapon to deal either piercing or slashing damage. I found 4 such bombs:
Junk ...
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Would Prestidigitation remove poison from an object's surface?
I had the passing thought of getting revenge, I mean protecting your items from thieves by using a strong contact poison. Now in the case of coins, would a casting of Prestidigitation be enough to ...
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What are toxins?
The spell Restoration says:
When you cast restoration, choose to either reduce a condition or lessen the effect of a toxin.
It references "toxin" many times more. But, what is a toxin? It'...
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Does the Air Bubble spell stop poisonous gas?
The 2nd level Air Bubble spell says:
You create a spectral globe around the head of a willing creature you can see within range. The globe is filled with fresh air that lasts until the spell ends.
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Does a creature with Ability Focus produce poison crafting materials with a higher DC than normal?
If you have ready access to the main ingredients of a poison (such as a trained creature that knows the "bestow poison" trick), you only have to pay 1/6 of the market price when crafting it instead of ...
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Does Poisoner Feat work on Warlock Familiars?
If a player is a Pact of the Chain Warlock and they decide to choose their familiar to be a sprite and had the Poisoner Feat, could they use that feat to apply poison to the sprite's weapons?
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